Hitting the open road on your Harley this spring? There may be a GPS in your future. The Garmin zumo 340 and 350 have cleared the FCC, so we expect an official announcement in the near future, possibly even later today. Those low model numbers are especially welcome, since many folks are scared off by the 500 and 600 series price tags. These will be the first lower-end motorcycle-friendly units that Garmin has introduced in two years, since the zumo 220. Also noteworthy, these are the first models to drop the nuvi-like flat-form factor in favor of the more Rubenesque shape found on the zumo 550.
Chopper-bound Garmin zumo 340 and 350 clear FCC
May 8, 2012 By 4 Comments
Garmin adds LiveTrack feature to Fit app
May 7, 2012 By 7 Comments
Garmin has just announced a new LiveTrack feature for their Fit smartphone app, that allows you to share your location by email, Facebook or Twitter. At an in-app purchase price of $19.99 a year or $1.99 per month, I think they are going to sell a lot of these. There are enough runners and road bikers with anxious spouses that I think it will be a big hit.
New Magellans bring Landmark Guidance
May 7, 2012 By 6 Comments
UPDATED with availability info below.
Big news today from Magellan, which (AFAIK) becomes the first GPS manufacturer in the US to deliver what they are calling “Landmark Guidance.” They define it this way, saying it:
…gives drivers an easier way to navigate to their destinations. Instead of presenting the driver only with street names that may be hard to locate and read, the Magellan RoadMate GPS tells drivers to turn at familiar landmarks such as gas stations, banks, stores or other large, easily-seen places.
Using Garmin nuvis for fleet tracking
May 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Did you know you can use a Garmin nuvi or dezl for fleet tracking? Yes, you can dispatch and message vehicles, track them using a Web interface and more. In order to do this though, you’ll have to turn to one of Garmin’s Mobile Resource Management (MRM) partners. These companies have taken Garmin’s Fleet Management Interface toolkit and built an end to end solution around it. So in addition to the cost of the navigation unit, you’ll also be paying for a transponder, data usage and access to a fleet tracking Web interface.
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Waypoints — May 6th, 2012
May 6, 2012 By 2 Comments
Waypoints is a weekly link roundup of (mostly) GPS related odds and ends. To get a few of the biggest stories as they break, follow me on Twitter.
Geocaching
- Latest Geo-Bomb Scare Avoidable, Says Official
- A brief history of geocaching
- Where did Wherigo go? Garmin and Groundspeak stake out their positions
- I added an update to my Geomate.jr / Brand 44 post
- Am I the only one that finds this distasteful? Multi-Millionaire Plans Cache Of Titanic Proportions
- Geocaching Journal: Annular Solar Eclipse Caching
DeLorme inReach 1.5 for iOS and Android clears the FCC
May 4, 2012 By 2 Comments
This one is for you iPhone toting backcountry types. It looks like the DeLorme inReach two-way satellite communicator is finally going to see an iPhone version. Or to be more precise, there’s actually a new model, the DeLorme inReach 1.5 that will be compatible with both iOS and Android.
Geomate.jr to be revived after latest acquisition?
May 2, 2012 By 1 Comment
The geocaching one-trick-pony Geomate.jr may be about to get a second life. We reported back in January that the product had been discontinued, but if you login to update your Geomate.jr today, you’ll get a message saying the page is temporarily out of service. The interesting part is that the page is “signed” by Brand 44.
Top 10 GPS for April 2012
May 1, 2012 By 17 Comments
It’s time to look back at our reader’s favorite reviews for the past month (which seems to be a good indication of what folks are researching for purchases). With few new releases out there, the rankings were once again pretty static; one thing worth mentioning though, is the arrival of the new Garmin nuvi 3590LMT, debuting at number five on the auto chart. And for the second month in a row, Garmin makes a clean sweep in both the auto and handheld categories, with the nuvi 1450LMT and eTrex 20 continuing to hold the top spots. On to the charts…
Waypoints — April 28th, 2012
April 28, 2012 By 2 Comments
Waypoints is a weekly link roundup of (mostly) GPS related odds and ends. To get a few of the biggest stories as they break, follow me on Twitter.
DeLorme
- Rechargeable battery hack for PN-60
- There is now a GizzMoVest case for the Delorme PN-60 series
(Amazon link)
Garmin Montana shutdown issue
April 24, 2012 By 14 Comments
I’ve been trying to do some barometric altimeter field testing for awhile now, and I keep running into problems on nearly every outing. On the last foray, my Montana 600 shut down twice. I’ve had this happen before and it seems to be due to vibration. This time it was while mountain biking, but I’ve had it happen when hiking too. read more
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